RAD - what is it?!

[rooney18]

Hi all, I have a query:
Regarding editing .adf files

How do I go about writing my .adf file to "RAD", and how do
I then edit it, and how do I write it back to adf?
Thanks in advance for your help
 :-)

[TheMagicM]

its a recoverable ram disk.... basically you can copy stuff to this "drive" which is stored in memory and it survives a reboot... make sure its in your mountlist, if so do: mount rad:  and viola...

I havent used rad for ADF files...but boy howdy, I've used virtual floppy off of aminet... it lets you create several df0 "images" on your hard drive..you can then use adf2disk to write to the images.

[mikeymike]

... and a very nice feature hidden away in the back of the A500 manual :-)

[weirdami]

A RAD is gnarly dude. Rock on! Woooooo! Surf's up! :-D

Seriously, I haven't used a RAD in a long time, but can't you just go to CLI and type "RAD:" to create one? I used to have an icon that did it. You'd need a special text file somewhere that controls the parameters. Just look for the ones for DF0, etc, and that's where it goes. ENVARC: or something, maybe? I think you can get away with modifying the one for DF0 because the parameters should be the same for a RAD that mimmicks DF0. It's been years, so this info might be flawed. If it works, then it's perfect. ;-)

[spirantho]

You may need to
Mount SYS:Storage/Dosdrivers/RAD
to access it, or else double-click on the RAD icon in Sys:Storage/DOSDrivers.
You may not need to - to find out, just Execute Command and type
"RAD:"
(without the quotes). If it says "Please mount volume RAD in any drive" then you need to mount it as above.

Of course, if you don't have a full Workbench install you may not have it!

[mikeymike]

I don't know about >WB1.x, but the A500 manual had a long-winded way of setting up the recoverable ramdisk, it included messing with the mountlist etc.

[blobrana]

hum,

you could just drop the SD0: icon into WBStartup drawer, as well...

[seer]

It depends on what you want and how much ram you've got.. Mounting an 880K RAD disk on an 1MB Amiga.. Should work..

Anyway. If you're running amiga OS 1.x (1.2 or 1.3) you need to open op a CLI or shell and type "mount rad:" and a disk should appear on the workbench.. You'll need to edit the mountlist to create a 880k RAD disk.. I'll need to dig it up if nobody else has a mountlist ready..

If you're running Amiga OS 2.x or 3.x you'll still need to edit the mountlist, but you can start it much easier as described before in this thread..

Then you'd need to find some ADF disk utility to write the ADF to RAD, but still, I doubt you'll can edit the disk..

Maybe you can say what game you want to edit (Or did you allready say ? Can't remember...)

[rooney18]

Thanks for all the help / advice.
The game I'd like to edit is Swos 96/97.
(Or any other swos game)
I'm a little confused by the responses.
Do I edit my emulation .adf swos on the pc?
Or can I edit my amiga disks of the game(s) on my amiga?
I have workbench 2.05 I think (I have extras v2.05
and fonts v2.05).

[seer]

Easiest would be to load the ADF up in ADFExplorer on a PC. But if you remember on the other thread someboy warned that ADFExplorer damaged some of his ADF files.

If you go tohttp://www.back2roots.org/Tools site you can perhaps search for some tools to do what you want.


[edit]

You may want to look at ADF Opus on this page.

[weirdami]

Of course, hex editing a floppy is much easier than editing a virtual floppy because what you want on the floppy is within the confines of the disk, but on a RAM disk, you gotta deal with running off the end of the virtual disk into not virtual disk RAM.

[blobrana]

Hum,
Depends on how much spare ram you've got i suppose...

You can always increase the size of the virtual disk RAM by editing the icon type.

(a tip is to use the fast memory instead of chip mem bufmemtype = 5)